[Distutils] Where should I put tests when packaging python modules?

[Donald Stufft]

On October 6, 2015 at 9:08:12 AM, Antoine Pitrou (solipsis at pitrou.net) wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 08:57:12 -0400
> Donald Stufft wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't really make experimenting in a VCS any harder, since all you need to
> > do first is run ``pip install -e .`` and it will do a development install and
> > add the src/ directory to sys.path.
>  
> That means you're suddently polluting your Python install with a
> development package. So either you create a dedicated virtualenv (more
> command-line boilerplate, including each time you switch from a project
> another) or you risk messing with other package installs.
>  

Unless your project has zero dependencies you’ll want to use a dedicated virtual environment anyways.

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